English citations of doodle

Noun: "(obsolete) a fool, a simpleton, a mindless person" edit

1764 1812 1837
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  • 1764, Samuel Foote, The Mayor of Garrett, W. Lowndes (1797), page 43:
    Mrs. Sneak. Why doodle! jackanapes! harkee, who am I?
    Sneak. Come, don't go to call names: am I? vhy my vife, and I am your master.
  • 1812, "THE TEARS OF SIR VICARY!!!", The Scourge, 2 March 1812, page 231:
    Perceval. Weep on! weep on! thou flouted loon,
    Weep on! weep on! thou gowky doodle!
  • 1837, "Carmen Inaugurale", Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, November 1837, page 676:
    Courtier, it was thine to bow —
    Great Arthur he, and Doodle thou!

Noun: "(slang, sometimes childish) penis" edit

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  • 1888, "Walter", My Secret Life, page 80:
    After wiping his fingers on the straw he went off, leaving me wondering at his lust, the size of his doodle, and the quantity of spunk he shot.
  • 1993, Ken Follett, A Dangerous Fortune, Island Books (1994), →ISBN, page 350:
    “Your husband kisses and touches you, his doodle gets long and stiff, and he puts it into your cunny. Most girls like it.”
  • 1993, Patti Walkuski, No Bed of Roses: Memoirs of a Madam, Wakefield Press (1993), →ISBN, page 189:
    His doodle hung as limp as last month's celery.
  • 1994, David Thorpe, Evaluating Child Protection, Open University Press (1994), →ISBN, page 118:
    For example, Case 301, a six year old Aboriginal boy who told his parents that his 13 year old male cousin had 'played with his doodle', had also complained about having a sore bottom and sore penis.
  • 1996, Jane Bonander, Winter Heart, Pocket Star Books (1996), →ISBN, page 43:
    Her favorite had been when she'd convinced the lascivious guards that Dinah's red hair meant she was a witch, and if they molested her, their doodles would shrivel up between their legs and fall off. Daisy had assured her that no man would risk losing his doodle.
  • 2002, Joe R. Lansdale, A Fine Dark Line, Gere Donovan Press (2011), unnumbered page:
    “The boy dog had turned, and that put them rear end to rear end, but it was his thing that was hung.”
    “His thing?”
    “That's right. His doodle.”
  • 2009, Vincent Havelund, Perils, Tribulations and Family Values, iUniverse (2009), →ISBN, page 140:
    'Oh my goodness that done it he hit the electric fence with his doodle, now look at him go his poor old doodle has gone purple, and he is rushing around now as if the world fell on him maybe it'?
  • 2011, Lexi George, Demon Hunting in Dixie, Brava Books (2011), →ISBN, unnumbered page:
    All of Dwight's parts wandered, especially his doodle. He had the wandering-est doodle in three states. His doodle had its own set of legs. His doodle was hardly at home. Heck, according to rumor Dwight Farris's doodle was hardly ever in his pants.